Monthly Archives: September 2016

Egyptian Copts in the diaspora of New York and New Jersey must decide to obey a call by Orthodox Pope Tawadros II of Egypt for a NYC rally at the UN General Assembly in support of President Al-Sisi’s speech on September 20. An official statement by the Coptic Church indicated that Bishop Beeman of Nakada

Mocking Islam or mocking the prophet of Islam spells doom. In Egypt you will be arrested, home and property confiscated, and coerced to “force emigrate” from your town. Then count on a five-year prison term. This was exactly the penalty for four Coptic Christian school boys, ages 14 through 17, and their teacher. Modernity

Not only the Twin Towers collapsed on 9/11. An entire concept collapsed with them. The entire idea of the modern nation-state, which beheads the king, confines God to the church interior and enthrones man and society instead - all collapsed like a house of cards to the call of Allah-hu-akbar emanating from the cockpit

Israel should ratify the nuclear test ban treaty within five years, the head of the UN organization established to implement the treaty told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Lassina Zerbo said he put no longer than five years as the limit “based on the positive sign that I’m seeing from Israel,” where he met

An American journalist has been arrested in Turkey and charged with "violating a military zone" after she returned from war-torn Syria, American officials said Wednesday. State Department spokesman John Kirby said the journalist, Lindsey Snell, had been detained on August 6, and that U.S. consular officials had been able to visit her almost three

Turkey on Wednesday denied agreeing to a US- brokered truce with Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria, saying it would not compromise with a "terrorist" group a week into an unprecedented cross-border offensive. Washington said Tuesday the two sides -- both US allies -- had agreed to a cessation of hostilities between their forces in

The 9/11 attacks were the culmination of a decade in which Islamic terrorists tested the resistance of America and the West. And saw that their stomach was very soft. Islamists understood that capitulation to threats and violence bespeaks the spiritual poverty of a society obsessed with Monica Lewinsky and for whom the highest good

I grew up in an Islamic country within the Coptic Christian community of Egypt. On September 11, 2001 I was already a free man living between two nation-state democracies – Italy and the USA. I must admit I never looked back. I never again thought of tyrannical rule and persecution – the words and actions